Linux Patents is a new blog started to “to shed light into which patents Linux infringes, which technologies to avoid and hopefully to help raise awareness of the patent problem and try to create a patent free Linux system.”
It is just getting started, so it is too soon to tell how it will shape up.
One of the things I have often heard (from both sides) is that non-patent lawyers can not fairly assess a patent. I have a list of patents I think mono might violate, but I also realize I don’t have the technical ability to speak to the issue. To be perfectly honest, I am going very slow on bringing out individual patents, because I don’t want to make an ass out of myself pointing to a patent and being way off base.
I’ll be keeping an eye on the Linux Patents blog and seeing how things develop. I think “one-a-day” is too ambitious – I’m not sure that’s enough time for people to discuss what they are reading. I have read a lot of Microsoft patents. It ain’t Dick and Jane in there, I’ll tell you that.
